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Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.
Todd Solondz

Eyes, Big, Pride

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.
Glen Hansard

Dad, Angry, Everything

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
Fred Melamed

Strong, Hard, Feelings

I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.'
Sean Paul

Remember, Everybody, Singer

It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.
James Van Der Beek

Country, Free, Keep

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
Iris Chang

Greatest, Country, Special

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
Lionel Richie

Home, Fear, Fight

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
Christopher Hampton

Nothing, Give, Find

My body started to shut down. I got really, really ill. When you're starving yourself, you can't concentrate. I was like a walking zombie, like the walking dead. I was just consumed with what I would eat, what I wouldn't eat.
Tracey Gold

Yourself, Down, Dead

If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
Peter Welch

Best, Mother, Father

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.
Melissa Leo

Down, Others, Start

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
Simon Callow

Care, Someone, Cannot

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
Henry L. Stimson

Time, Words, Him

The nations were awakened from the sleep of death, as the words of eternal life flowed from the Apostles' lips, - the temples of superstition were shut or destroyed, and churches were planted in every part of the civilized world.
John Strachan

Life, Death, Sleep

With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!
Robbie Williams

Best, War, Everything

I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent.
Nellie Bly

Give, Friends, Rather

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
Taslima Nasrin

Religion, Afraid, Difficult

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
Richie Benaud

Brain, Put, Screen

I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.
Alex Winter

Eyes, Few, Wide

Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
Marty Meehan

Past, America, Special

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.
Joe Henderson

Time, Lost, Lose

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.
William Scranton

Morning, Saying, Down

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.
William Scranton

Time, Morning, Down

When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!
Kenneth Koch

Top, Finish, Endless

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
Zhang Ziyi

Today, Rest, Internet

Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying to silence my voice. I've been told to 'sit down and shut up' over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people.
Cynthia McKinney

Truth, Silence, Down

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown

Time, Power, Job

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.
Antoine Fuqua

Life, Off, Artist

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
Jack Bowman

Art, Away, Purpose

Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.
Naomi Watts

Time, Put, Maybe

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